Sabine Demel

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Sabine Demel (born September 21, 1962 in Coburg ) is a German theologian and university professor . Since 1997 she has held the chair for canon law at the University of Regensburg.

Life

From 1982 Demel studied Roman Catholic theology and classical philology at the University of Eichstätt . In 1987 she obtained a diploma in Catholic theology and in 1988 she passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools with the subject combination of Latin and Catholic religious studies. After a year as a pastoral assistant , Demel did her doctorate in 1992 while working as a research assistant at the Catholic University of Eichstätt with the thesis Church marriage - an indispensable duty for the marriage of the Catholic Christian? In 1995 he completed his habilitation with Peter Krämer with the habilitation thesis Abortion Between Impunity and Excommunication. Secular and ecclesiastical criminal law to the test . 1990–1996 Demel also completed part-time training and work as a marriage, family and life counselor.

Since 1997 Demel has been Professor of Canon Law at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Regensburg . 2001–2003 she was dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg, 2007–2013 senator, and since 2013 she has been the representative of the German University Association of the Regensburg Group. Since 2014 she has held the office of Dean of Studies in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg.

Demel's research focuses on the relationship between theology and law, structures of participation in church and society and on ecumenism. Approaches to ecclesiastical office, laypeople and women in the Catholic Church particularly shape her research.

Demel has been married since 1989.

Self-image as a canon lawyer

Demel sees canon law as an instrument to protect legitimate spaces of freedom in the church, to discover and develop new ones. It is important to her to "take up hot topics in the Catholic Church, put your finger in the wounds and propose feasible solutions".

The following principles are decisive for them:

  • Preach structures too! - Structures are secondary to the content; but if they do not fit the content or contradict the content, they falsify the content, and even threaten to kill it
  • Language depicts reality and creates reality
  • Knowledge is power - also and especially in legal matters
  • Right without mercy is cruelty, just as, conversely, mercy without right is arbitrariness (Thomas Aquinas)
  • Right is like a lantern in the night. It shows the way. Only drunk people hold on to it (based on Karl Rahner)

Act

The focus of activity and research is canon law aspects of Roman Catholic theology. Demel was a founding member of the regional association Donum Vitae in Bavaria eV in 1999 and has been its chairman since October 2017. From 2001 to 2012 Demel was an appointed member of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK). She is also a founding member of the AGENDA Forum of German Theologians, a member of the European Society for Catholic Theology German Section, the Helen Straumann Foundation for Feminist Theology, the Theological Advisory Board of the Professional Association of Pastoral Referees in Germany (BVPR) and a member of the Board of Trustees and Vice President the Herbert Haag Foundation for Freedom in the Church.

Fonts (selection)

  • Church wedding - an indispensable duty for the marriage of the Catholic Christian? , Stuttgart 1993, Zugl. University thesis Eichstätt (Diss.) 1992.
  • Abortion between impunity and excommunication. Secular and ecclesiastical criminal law put to the test , Stuttgart 1995, plus university thesis Eichstätt (habilitation thesis) 1995.
  • Participate - have a say - have a say. Basics, possibilities and limits in the Catholic Church , Regensburg 2001.
  • Structures and offices of the Church. What has to be said from a theological and legal point of view , Würzburg 2002; (2nd edition: 2006).
  • with Hanspeter Heinz and Christian Pöpperl : Does not extinguish the mind. Synodal processes in German dioceses , Freiburg im Breisgau 2005.
  • Called to responsibility. Nail tests of the lay apostolate , Freiburg i. Br. 2009.
  • Spirituality of Canon Law , Münsterschwarzach 2009.
  • Manual of Canon Law. Basic terms for study and practice , Freiburg 2010 (2nd edition 2013).
  • Women and Church Office , Freiburg i. Br. 2012.
  • We are all church. Reflections on the dialogue process , Münsterschwarzach 2013.
  • Forgotten officials? The future of pastoral consultants , Freiburg i. Br. 2013.
  • Introduction to the Law of the Catholic Church. Basics - Sources - Examples , Darmstadt 2014.
  • with Klaus Lüdicke (Ed.): Between power of attorney and powerlessness. The pastoral power of the diocesan bishop and its limits , Freiburg i.Br. 2015.
  • The law flows like water. How does canon law work and to whom is it useful? , Regensburg 2017.
  • with Michael Pfleger: Sacrament of Mercy. What chance does confession have ?, Freiburg i.Br. 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Home - DONUM VITAE in Bayern eV Accessed on October 19, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ [5]
personal data
SURNAME Demel, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg